1981- 1987 BSc and MSc, Department of Microbiology, M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia. 1987-1991 PhD, Institute of Microbiology, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. 1991- 1992 Postdoc, Department of Microbiology, University of Groningen, The Netherlands, Laboratory of Prof. H. van Gemerden. 1992 -1994 Postdoc, Department of Microbiology, University of Freiburg, Laboratory of Prof. Dr. G. Drews. 1994 -1996 Postdoc, "Centre de Cadarache," France, Laboratory of Dr. A. Vermeglio 1996 - 1998 Postdoc, Department of Microbiology, University of British Columbia, Canada, Laboratory of Prof. J. T. Beatty. 1998 - 1999 Research Associate, Department of Microbiology, University of British Columbia, Canada, Laboratory of Prof. J. T. Beatty. 1999 - 2004 Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, The University of Manitoba 2004 - 2013 Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology, The University of Manitoba 2013 - Current Professor, Department of Microbiology, The University of Manitoba

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The light-harvesting complexes of Roseococcus thiosulfatophilus, RB3 and Erythromicrobium ramosum, E5 and energy transfer from the carotenoids to reaction center. Zeitschrift fur Naturforschung (in English). 49c:579-586. Yurkov, V., Schoepp, B., and Vermeglio, A. 1995. Electron transfer carriers in obligately aerobic photosynthetic bacteria from genera Roseococcus and Erythromicrobium, p. 543-546. In P. Mathis (ed.), Photosynthesis: from light to biosphere- 1995. Kluwer Academic Publ., Dordrecht/Boston/London. Gall, A., Yurkov, V., Cogdell, R. J., Vermeglio, A., and Robert, B. 1995. The pigment-protein interactions of some unusual light-harvesting antenna: a Raman study, p. 251-254. In P. Mathis (ed.), Photosynthesis: from light to biosphere- 1995. Kluwer Academic Publ., Dordrecht/Boston/London. Yurkov, V., Jappe, J., and Vermeglio, A. 1996. Tellurite resistance and reduction by obligatory aerobic photosynthetic bacteria. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 11:4195-4198. Yurkov, V., E. Stackebrandt, O. Buss, A. Vermeglio, V. Gorlenko, and J. T. Beatty. 1997. Reorganization of the genus Erythromicrobium. Description of E. sibiricum and E. ursincola as members of two new independent genera: Sandaracinobacter and Erythromonas. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 47: 1172-1178. Yurkov, V. V., and Beatty, J. T. 1998. Aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria. Microbiol. and Mol. Biol. Reviews. 62:695-724. Yurkov, V., and Beatty, J. T. 1998. Isolation of aerobic anoxygenic photosynthetic bacteria from black smoker plume waters of the Juan de Fuca Ridge in the Pacific Ocean. Appl. Environ. Microbiol.?? 64:337-341. Chen, X-Y., Yurkov, V., Paddock, M. L., Okamura, M. Y., and Beatty, J. T. 1998. A puhA gene deletion and plasmid complementation system for facile site directed mutagenesis studies of the reaction center H protein of Rhodobacter sphaeroides. Photosynth. Res. 55:369-373.